Many people have written about Rivera as some kind of Spanish Macron. That’s plainly wrong. Many people in Catalonia (and Spain) have for long considered C’s as a right-wing nationalist/populist party.

Why? Thread below 👇⚡

2)First of all. C’s is not a “new liberal party born out of the crisis”. C’s was born in 2006 as an Spanish nationalist outfit in Catalonia with the intention of undermining the use of Catalan language in schools and public media.

3) (Background info:Catalan school system is a consensus policy to ensure social cohesion and adequate protection of the Catalan language after 40 years of Franco dictatorship where Catalan was marginalized and banned from schools and institutions. 99% of Catalans speak Spanish)